Word: accompanist
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...violinist father and a mother who was a professional accompanist, Browning followed in Cliburn's footsteps, studied with famed Teacher Rosina Lhevinne at Juilliard. He tours...
...members of the chorus hail from 84 different educational institutions. Their conductor is a former accompanist and assistant conductor of the Harvard and Radcliffe choruses and presently chairman of the Music Department at Pomona College in California...
...known affectionately as "pickin' scruggs." This technique, which moved one astigmatic observer to compare Scruggs's achievement on the banjo to Paganini's on the violin, involves a clawlike motion with thumb and two fingers that serves to transform the banjo player from a plunk-plunking accompanist into a virtuoso soloist. Nobody has heard anything to equal it, says one folk expert, since the glorious days of Fisher Hendley and his Aristocratic Pigs, famed hillbillies of the early...
...fine acting with effortless singing in the title role. Fast emerging as one of Europe's top divas, Berganza originally studied piano at the Madrid Conservatory, took up singing as a joke, hit the concert circuit after unexpectedly winning the conservatory's singing prize, and married her accompanist...
...Howard, 94, veteran showman, author of 28 musical comedies, more than 500 songs (I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now), an ebullient entertainer for eight decades who married his ninth wife at 87, had just finished a benefit show, was blowing a kiss to his accompanist when he collapsed on the stage of the Civic Opera House; in Chicago...